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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Beginnings of Jamestown Life at Jamestown Plymouth Settling New England Settling The Middle
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Prior to the settlement at Jamestown, this man tried to organize an effort to establish a colony in both 1585 and 1587.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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John White led the colonists (for Raleigh) to the New World and this is where they settled.
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Roanoke
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In this year, the settlement at Jamestown was established.
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1607
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This joint-stock company financed and organized the effort to create a colony in the land that would become known as Virginia.
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The Virginia Company of London or “the London Company”
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This man issued the charter allowing for a settlement between present-day North Carolina and the Potomac River.
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King James I
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This man led the colonists at Jamestown with policies like – “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
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John Smith
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This crop eventually led to economic prosperity for Jamestown, which was the initial goal of the organizing company.
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Tobacco
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This man brought tobacco seeds/plants to Jamestown, experimenting with them in order to find a profitable plant that Europeans would enjoy smoking.
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John Rolfe
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Plantations required a lot of labor, so owners hired these people that agreed to work a certain number of years (3-7 usually) in order for passage to America.
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Indentured Servants
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Relations between the Native Americans and the colonists were somewhat stable after Rolfe married Pocahontas. However, relations declined after the death of this man in 1618.
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Powhatan
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The Puritans want to change the Anglican Church from within to rid it of Roman Catholic influence. This group decided to worship by themselves instead.
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Separatists
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The Pilgrims were Separatists that went to the Netherlands in 1608. However, they decided to organize a move to America, and this man helped finance the voyage and found the Mayflower.
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John Carver
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The Pilgrims landed at Cape Code, Massachusetts in November of 1620 before finding Plymouth harbor in December. Prior to going ashore, the Pilgrims signed this document that established self-government and majority rules.
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The Mayflower Compact
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After struggling through the first winter, the Pilgrims met Samoset and Massasoit, but this man taught them the necessary survival skills that allowed them to have an abundant harvest, leading to the first Thanksgiving.
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Squanto
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This man was the second governor of the Plymouth colony.
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William Bradford
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This movement describes the journey of roughly 16,000 Puritans from England to Massachusetts between 1620 and 1630.
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The Great Migration
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Although the Puritans came to America to find freedom for their own beliefs, they did not believe in this – the acceptance of different beliefs.
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Toleration (tolerance)
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This man was asked to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston) that John Winthrop started, because he believed in such things as - separation of church and state AND treating the Native Americans with fairness and respect.
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Roger Williams
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Like Roger Williams, this woman was also asked to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She had undermined the power of the church by suggesting that people could worship God on their own within the home.
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Anne Hutchinson
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Thomas Hooker led his congregation from Massachusetts to Connecticut in search of more farmland for the people. Once there, they wrote this – the first American constitution to be written.
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River for the Dutch, leading to the establishment of New Netherlands, which changed names to this when the English took over.
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New York
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The Dutch encouraged growth in New Amsterdam by giving land and power to these wealthy land owners in exchange for bringing in at least 50 new settlers to work on their estates.
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Patroons
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King Charles II sent James, Duke of York, to take the land from the Dutch. As the Duke of York had trouble managing his land, he gave part to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. The land, once split as east and west, eventually became this colony.
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New Jersey
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a home to this religious community (group).
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Quakers
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This colony had once been part of Pennsylvania, and had previously provided William Penn’s colony access to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Delaware
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